盲目|もうもくmoumoku[0]heiban (flat)

Common
Definitions
  1. no-adjectiveblindness
    彼女かのじょは盲目もうもくの人ひとを助たすけるための協会きょうかいを創設そうせつした。↗
    She set up an association to help blind people.
  2. na-adjective, nounblind (e.g. love, faith); reckless
    愛あいは盲目もうもく。↗
    Love is blind.
Conjugation
Plain form盲目(もうもく)
Polite (desu)盲目です(もうもくです)
Negative (dewa nai)盲目ではない(もうもくではない)
polite (dewa arimasen)盲目ではありません(もうもくではありません)
Past (datta)盲目だった(もうもくだった)
Past negative (dewa nakatta)盲目ではなかった(もうもくではなかった)
Te form (de)盲目で(もうもくで)
Adverbial (ni)盲目に(もうもくに)
Conditional (nara)盲目なら(もうもくなら)

Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym失明しつめいNeutralLosing one's eyesight, or the state of being blind afterwards, as in 「事故で失明する」; unlike 盲目 it has no figurative sense of losing one's reason.
  • Related不合理ふごうりNeutralIrrational or illogical; stresses that something does not hold up to reason, rather than a person acting without judgement.
  • Related理不尽りふじんNeutralUnreasonableness that defies logic and fairness, as in 「理不尽な要求」 or 「理不尽な運命」.
  • Related非合理ひごうりNeutralIrrational, contrary to reason, as in 「非合理的な行動」; a term with a philosophical flavour.
  • Related不条理ふじょうりNeutralAbsurdity that defies reason, as in 「人生の不条理」; carries a literary and philosophical colouring.
  • Related盲目的もうもくてきNeutralThe adjectival-noun form; used only in the figurative sense of blind and unthinking, as in 「盲目的に信じる」.
  • Related非論理的ひろんりてきNeutralIllogical; describes reasoning that does not follow a coherent line, focusing on the way one thinks.
  • Antonym洞察どうさつNeutralAntonym: insight — seeing through to the essence of things with keen observation; the opposite of judging blindly.
  • Antonym明眼WrittenAntonym, in written/formal prose: clear, penetrating eyesight or discernment, opposed to 盲目 in the sense of failing to see things clearly.

Use 「盲目」 for literal blindness or, figuratively, for losing one's judgement, as in 「恋は盲目」. Losing eyesight is 「失明」; blind, unthinking devotion is 「盲目的」; unreasonableness is 「理不尽」. The antonym is 「洞察」.

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Japanese definitions
  1. 目めが見みえないこと。
  2. 理性的りせいてきな判断はんだんができないこと。
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